UNITED STATES v. SOBELL

No. 151, Docket 27558.

314 F.2d 314 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Morton SOBELL, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall Perlin and Sanford M. Katz, New York City (Donner, Perlin & Piel), New York City (Frank J. Donner, Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York City, of counsel), (Benjamin Dreyfus, San Francisco, Cal., on brief), for appellant.

Robert J. Geniesse, New York City (Vincent L. Broderick, U. S. Atty. for Southern District of New York, Arthur I. Rosett, Asst. U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before SWAN, FRIENDLY and MARSHALL, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

On March 29, 1951, a jury in the Southern District of New York found Morton Sobell guilty, along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, under a single count indictment charging a conspiracy to violate 50 U.S.C. (1946 ed.) § 32(a), which made it a crime to "communicate, deliver or transmit, to any foreign government * * * information relating to the national defense", or to aid or induce another to do so. Sobell was sentenced to thirty years...

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